Texas Women’s History Month Profiles

KUT and the Ruthe Winegarten Foundation celebrate Women’s History Month with the “Texas Women’s History Moment” throughout March. These 90 second pieces highlight the impact that women in the Lone Star State have had in shaping what Texas has become today.
You can hear these vignettes at various times each day on KUT 90.5.
For more Texas Women’s History Month profiles, go here.
March 31: Ruthe Winegarten
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March 30: Lucy Parsons
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March 29: Bessie Coleman
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March 28: Hattie Mae White
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March 27: Margie Neal
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March 26: Lizzie Johnson
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March 25: Tejanas and Civil Rights
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March 24: Molly Ivins
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March 23: Katherine Anne Porter
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March 22: Antonia Piñeda Hernandez
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March 21: African American Suffrage
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March 20: Indian Women in Texas, Paleo to Archaic
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March 19: Rosa María Hinojosa de Ballí
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March 18: Consuelo Gonzalez Amezcua
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March 17: Louise Ballerstadt Raggio
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March 16: Alice Dickerson Montemayor
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March 15: Jovita Idar
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March 14: Patricia de la Garza
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March 13: Hortense Ward
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March 12: Mujeres por la Raza
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March 11: Sippie Wallace
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March 10: Jane Long and Kian
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March 9: Juanita Craft
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March 8: Sarah Tilghman Hughes
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March 7: Marsha Gomez
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March 6: Angelina
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March 5: The Petticoat Lobby
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March 4: Native American Women, 1500-1800
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March 3: Estela Portillo Trambley
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March 2: Emily D. West
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March 1: Elisabet Ney
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The Bessie Coleman piece was great, I really enjoyed it! And I hate to be one of those people but seriously, if you are doing pieces about Texas? You have to be able to pronounce Waxahachie. It’s NOT WAXahachie. No, it is not.